Partecipazione in
qualità di “invited speaker” o “chairman” a numerosi congressi nazionali ed internazionali,
tra cui :
The International Congress of Plant Pathology di
Christchurch (New Zealand) 2003 (invited pleanary
speaker); the International Congress of
Plant Pathology in Montreal 1993 (vice-chairman); the International Congress of
Plant Pathology Edinburgh 1998 (invited speaker); the XIVth
International Plant Protection Congress, Gerusalem
1999 (invited lecture); the 8th Congress of the International Union of
Microbiological Society, Gerusalem 1996 (invited
speaker, 3 talks); the International Workshop on “Methods to monitor microbial
inoculants to improve their success” Wageningen, 2000
(invited speaker); the workshop on “The role of cell wall degrading enzymes of Trichoderma harzianum in
biocontrol” Tynset, Norway,
1998 (invited speaker and chairman); the International Symposium on Chitin Enzymology, Senigallia, Italy
1996 (chairman); the 4th European Conference on Fungal Genetics Leon, Spain,
1998 (selected speaker); the Italian National Congress on Biotechnology, Turin,
Italy, 2000 (invited speaker); the International Workshop on Molecular
Variability of Fungal Pathogens, Evian, France, 1997 (invited speaker); the
annual Congress on Plant Citology, Siena, Italy, 1997
(invited speaker); the 5th International Trichoderma
e Gliocladium Workshop, Beltsville MD, 1995
(chairman); the 6th International Trichoderma
e Gliocladium Workshop, Helsinky, Finland, 1999 (chairman e invited speaker); the
International Meeting on Molecular Approaches in Biocontrol,
Delemont, Switzerland 1997 (invited keynote); the
mini-symposium on DNA Methylation in Filamentous
Fungi, Max-Plank-Institut fur Molekulare
Genetik, Berlin 1993 (invited speaker); the VI Congress
of the Italian Planat pathology Society, Campobasso, Italy, 1998 (invited speaker); the 3rd Congress
on Chitin Enzymology (invited speaker), Senigallia, Italy; the International Symposium on Microbial
Ecology (invited speaker), Holland 2001; the International workshop on “Fate
and Effect of Microbial Inoculants” Elsinore Denmark
2001 (invited speaker); il 7th International
Mycological Congress , Oslo, Norway 2002 (4 invited talks); the International
Workshop on Trichoderma Biocntrol
and Biotechnology, Hanghzou China, 2002 (invited
speaker and chairman); the Congreso Nacional de Biotecnologia Sevilla, Spain 2002 (invited plenary speaker); the 6th European
Conference on Fungal Genetics, Pisa, Italy 2002 (Plenary speaker); the NATO
advanced Reasearch Workshop on Enhancing biocontrol agents and handling risks, 2001, Firenze, Italy (invited speaker), the 1st Summer School on
Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions, University of Leiden,
Holland 2003 (invited teacher); The Convegno Convencion I+D NBT – 2001, Sevilla,
2001 (invited speaker); the Congress AGRIMED – Agricoltura
svilippo sostenibile e prodotti tipici dell’area mediterranea” Capua, Naples, 2000 (invited speaker); the Convegno su Aspetti
Biologici sulla Difesa delle Colture
Agrarie, Sorrento, Italy, 2000 (invited speaker); the
Convegno on “ Nuove tecnologie di difesa
ecocompatibile in agricoltura-
opportunità e metodologie
per il trasferimento alle imprese” Portici
(Naples) 2003 (invited speaker); invited speaker at several meeting of the COST
program (830, 835 ecc.); the APS Annual meeting,
2004, Anaheim, CA (invited speaker); the X Cell Wall Meeting (Scientific
committee) 2004 Sorrento, Italy; the IOBC meeting 2004, San Michele All’Adige, Italy 2004; the 1st FEMS Congress of European
Microbiologists in Ljubljana (Slovenia) (Invited speaker) 2003; the VIII
International Workshop on Trichoderma and Gliocladium (Congress Chairman), 2004, Hangzhou,
China; the Trichoderma Biocontrol
and Biotechnology Meeting in Sheizi China, 2004; the
12th International Congress on Molecular Plant-Pathogen Interaction, Cancun Messico 2005 (invited speaker); the Congress “Forum Fitoiatrici, Padua, Italy, 2004 (invited speaker; the
Congress on “Piante e microorganismi
per il recupero di suoli contaminati”,
Iglesias, Italy 2004 (keynote invited speaker);theMeeting on “Biologia
delle Interazioni tra le piante e i microorganismi patogeni” Maratea, Italy, 1999;
the Meeting Forum Fitoiatrici, Corte Benedettina, Legnaro (Italy)
2004, invited speaker); the Meeting “Patogeni, fitofagi e piante infestanti delle colture agrarie: le prospettive senza il Bromuro di
metile”, Capri, Naples, Italy, 2003; the meeting
“Innovation Focus Day – Nuove tecnologie
di difesa ecocompatibile in agricoltura –opportunità e metodologie per il trasferimento alle imprese”, 2003 (invited speaker);
The Annual Congress of the British Mycological Society, Manchester 2005
(invited speaker); the Annual Meeting of the Italian Plant Pathology Society, Reggio Calabria, Italy, 2005
(session chairman); the XLV Congress of the APS-Division caribe,
San Josè, Costarica, 2005
(invited speaker); the VII Congress FISV (Italian Federation of Life Sciences),
Riva del Garda, Italy, 2005 (invited speaker); the
EPSO Workshop, Amsterdam, 2005 (invited speaker) and several others.